Why do Indian Union Territories exist, exactly?
Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, and Puducherry are the eight Union Territories (UTs) of India.
According to Article 3 of the Indian Constitution, the Union Government has the authority to create new States, change the names or boundaries of existing States, and alter the size of any State.
The Indian federal system includes the following when the Indian Constitution was adopted in 1949.
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Former British India provinces with a governor and a legislature are listed in Part A.
2. The erstwhile princely states that had a Rajpramukh in charge.
Part C of 3: Princely states that were administered by Chief Commissioners as well as their provinces.
The Indian President appointed the administrators in each of the aforementioned categories.
4- Part D: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands' territory, which was controlled by a central government-appointed lieutenant governor.
Part C and Part D states were amalgamated into a single category of "Union Territory" following the States Reorganisation Act of 1956. The Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act of 1956 introduced the idea of the UT.
Why were Indian union territories formed?
After gaining independence from French rule in 1954, Puducherry was integrated into the Republic of India and is now known as the Union Territory of Puducherry. Puducherry received the designation of Partial Statehood in 1963.
Daman, Diu, and Goa gained independence from Portuguese rule in 1961 and were united into the Republic of India. Goa was the first Union Territory to be given the status of a state when it did so in 1987. The Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were combined in 2020 to form a unified territory with those names.
Manipur, Tripura, and Himachal Pradesh received statehood status at the beginning of the 1970s. A Union Territory was created out of Chandigarh.
Delhi used to be a state. The inaugural Delhi Legislative Assembly elections, for 48 members, were held on March 27, 1952. The first chief minister of Delhi was Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Yadav. However, Delhi lost its statehood and changed to a UT as a result of the State Reorganisation Act of 1956. The National Capital Territory of Delhi, formerly known as the Union Territory of Delhi, received partial statehood recognition in 1991.
The Indian Parliament enacted the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 in 2019, which divided the state of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
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